I regret to inform you that your poetry break is over.
This poem was part of April’s Poem-A-Day challenge, and the theme for the day was “city poem”. I was working on a library podcast episode about ghost towns in my county at the time and decided that Solomon would be ideal for this theme, even if it was more of a town than a city and it didn’t exist anymore.
The poetic form is an endecha, which is a Spanish quatrain form. Lines 1, 2, and 3 have seven syllables, and line 4 has eleven. The rhyme scheme is abcb.
Welcome to Solomon.
Solomon
A tiny place that once was
almost forgotten but for
stories and memories of
lives that went in and out of the only store.
Sweet memories don’t come from
things that last, that’s what life showed.
Buried by a man named Bray,
all that’s left is a hitching post by the road.
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